Malware Threat Rapidly Escalates Against E- Commerce

According to an August 2008 report from the Anti phishing Working Group, an organization that traces sources of phishing activities, the agency sates that there is a rise in the usage of malware to phish personal information.

According to the report released in the end week of August 2008, evidences are accumulating that criminal attacks on electronic commerce via keystroke loggers and other software that records users' private details are increasing rapidly. The total number of URLs resorted to for distributing such malware escalated to a...